Tresa Baldas reports: A pair of thieves stole the identities of hundreds of patients at two Metro Detroit hospitals and used their personal information to scam the government out of nearly $500,000 in phony tax refunds, the U.S. Attorneys office announced today. According to an indictment unsealed Monday in U.S. District Court, one of the…
Month: November 2014
The Evolution Store updates its breach notification
The Evolution Store recently sent an updated notification letter to those affected by their previously disclosed e-commerce breach. In their updated notification, William Stevens, President of The Evolution Store, writes that forensic investigation confirmed that unauthorized IP addresses first accessed the e-commerce site on March 2, 2014, and that the last date of unauthorized access was…
INFORMATION SECURITY: Additional Actions Needed to Address Vulnerabilities That Put VA Data at Risk – GAO
Highlights of a new GAO study also addressing VA infosecurity: What GAO Found The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has taken actions to mitigate previously identified vulnerabilities, but it has not fully addressed these weaknesses: Incident response: VA took actions to contain and eradicate the effects of a network intrusion detected in 2012, but it could…
Hackers went after Detroit database, official
Nathan Bomey reports: Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan told the 2014 North American International Cyber Summit in Detroit crowd Monday that cyberattackers recently seized control of an immaterial city database and sought hundreds of thousands of dollars in a digital currency called bitcoin. The attack went nowhere, but Duggan said it was an example of the…
Florida student aid accounts used in ID theft affecting 644 victims
AP reports: Accounts used by South Florida college students to receive financial aid were used in a scheme to file fraudulent income tax returns using stolen identities. Miami U.S. Attorney Wifredo Ferrer said Tuesday that 21 people have been charged, most of them current or former students at Miami Dade College. The students were using…
Stolen Laptop Doesn't Warrant $116M In Damages, Alere Says
In the latest development in the lawsuit over the Alere Home Monitoring breach that affected over 100,000 patients, Alere now asks the court to dismiss all the remaining charges under the Confidential Medical Information Act. The court had previously tossed the proposed class action lawsuit, and I suspect the court will grant Alere’s motion to…